The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (v..9b)

Monday 10th March 2008
from 12.30
Registration

13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

14:00
Session 1: Narrative Constructions of Intimacy
Chair: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

Jennifer Cooke
Writing Intimacy: Literary Scenes of Sex

Carla Hustak
‘Civilizing Sex’: The Whiteness of Love in the Darwinian Romances of the Anglo-American Empire

Dan Mahoney
Constructing Intimate Acts and Intimate Meanings through Self-Reflexive Storytelling

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 2: Challenging Intimate Boundaries
Chair: Luisa Orza

Bernhard Weicht
Loving Care by Strangers: Crossing the Boundaries of Closeness, Love and Foreignness

David White
Sweet And Innocent: Can Young Children Fall In Love?

Albert Wakin & Duyen B. Vo
Love Variant: Limerence

17:30
Wine Reception (with delegates from Evil 9)


Tuesday 11th March 2008
9:30
Session 3: Student Love
Chair: Jessica Mjöberg

Asli Bugay & Esin Tezer
Attachment Styles and Loving Attitudes among Turkish University Students

Vassiliki Deliyianni-Kouimtzi & Vassiliki Lentza
Boys’ and Girls’ Stories of the Perfect Love: Gender and the Construction of Romantic Relationships in the Greek Classroom

Okan Cem Çırakoğlu & Esin Tezer
Reactions to Dissatisfactions: The Role of Locus of Control and Critical Thinking

11:00
Coffee Break

11:30
Session 4: Forms of Intimate Evil
Chair: Ayten Sururi

Christopher Swader
On the Genesis of Intimate, Incidental, and Sociopathic Evil

Luisa Orza
HIV… easy as ABC

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Explorations of Intimate Self
Chair: David White

Brigid Twohig Noone
Intimacy in Painting

Gavin Rae
Alienation, The Self & Being

Patricia Neville
Book-Marking the Self: The Rituals of Buying and Reading Self-Help Books

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 6: Recasting Love, Self and Otherness
Chair: Christopher Swader

Sara de Jong
Global Caring: Rethinking the Relationship between Self and Other

Jessica Mjöberg
Intimacy as a Threat to the Self

17:00
Sessions End


Wednesday 12th March 2008
9:30
Session 7: Art and Mourning, Consolation and Well-Being
Chair: Sara de Jong

Anne Riggs
The Creative Space

Pip Stokes
Dresses my Mother Wore: A Poetics of Mourning

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 8: Friendship
Chair: Gavin Rae

Oana Suciu
On Friendship

Paul James
Who is a Friend?

Ayten Sururi
Friendship and Self-Love: Can the Stoic Wise be a Genuine Friend?

12:30
Lunch

14:00
No formal programme this afternoon. Time of shopping, sightseeing.

Cultural Tour
(program available later this week)

19:30
Banquet (tbc)

Thursday 13th March 2008
10:00
Session 9: Intimate Theory?
Chair: Jennifer Cooke

Jacqui Gabb
The Boundaries of Intimacy: What constitutes intimacy and an intimate relationship?

Rachel I. Waterstradt
From Fragile to Resilient: Arendt and Ricoeur on the Connection of the Self to the Understanding of the Connection to Intimate and Social Others

Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Conceptual Geographies of Intimacy

11:30
Coffee Break

12:00
Session 10: Lessons from Case Studies
Chair: Carla Hustak

Chun-Yu Lin
Invisible Self? A Case Study on Literacy Learning of Transnational Immigrant Marriage in Taiwan

Jody Mellor, Megan Blake & Lucy Crane
Friendship and Cultural Capital: Class, Gender and Home Entertaining

Sandra Manuel
Loves Me … Loves Me Not: Dimensions of Sexual Intimacy in Urban Youth Relationships in Maputo

13:30
Lunch

15:00
Development Meeting

15:30
Conference Ends